Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-16
AN INFANT

The Wonderful Development of Horton,
Kansas-Sot Yet One Year Did Has
5000 Population and Declared a City of
the Second Glass.
HORTON, HAS, September l4.-Horton,
the great Rock Island town forty miles
west OF the Missouri river, will be one
year old the Goth OF September, and a
grand anniversary celebration will be
given on that day a grand barbecue at
which four oxen and thirty sheep will be
DIR, ssed and roasted whole, the finest ora
tors in the West, a grand ball at night IN
the immense Rock Island car shops, a free
barbecue dinner for everybody who comes,
and excursion rates on the Rock Islands
Western lines. The people for 100 miles
around are invited to come aud share the
hospitalities of Horton and help celebrate
the first anniversary of Horton, the infant
prodigy of the West, which one year age
was q Cornfield, but - now 4 city Of 5000
souls Last Saturday, upon petition Of
the Mayor and Council Of the city, Gov.
Martin issued a proclamation declaring
Horton a city OF the second class. This
IS something entirely unheard OF in the
history of any city in the West, becoming
a city of the second class before it is one
| wear old. A large lot of the machinery toT
the immense machine and car shops has
| already arrived, and Messrs. Grace X
Griffith, of Chicago, the contractor, say
that the buildings will be all ready TO re-
ceive the machinery by November l.
When run to their full capacity their
shope will given employment to over p
900 men and they are The largest plant ot
the West. The company expects 20 work
! 1900 men on the start, which will be IN
! creaSad rs the system increases IN mileage
| These are the E.2;n machine and car shops
| for the entire system wesI o. the Missouri
| river, comprising 4, 900 miles OF nrSt-class
/ railway, including main lines and feeders.
| Horton Is the junction Of the great North
west and Southwest systems
Work is being rapidly pushed on the
| street railway and over two miles Wall 0t
completed and will he ready for business
by January l. 1t is being built by a syn
dictate of Kansas City gentlemen, whC
recently purchased 80 acres OF land all
iacent to the city, on the north, "hicL
they have plated and have already sold
in the past two weeks over oOO lois
Twenty brick houses are ude way ana
stock is nearly all subscribed for a $2o,OOt
three story brick hotel, which will be- bull
this fall on Eogth slcin street. Water
works and electric light franchises wlIlsoO
he asked for by the Kansas City syndicate
and be put in as fast "a men and none
can do the work At a meeting OF th'
Horton Board of Trade this evening owe
- GGO were raised IN fifteen minutes L
establish on Of the largest creamery anC
coIJ-storage plants in the West by Davis
Rankin of Chicago. Real estate IS ye
very cheap, and thousands can be made OF
iudiCious investments. Over 100 houSe
are i'm course OF erection in different por
tiOns Ofthe city.
In addition 10 their large machine ant
car shops, the railroad company expect u
locate here within n wear, a iarg
foundry for the manufacture Of car wheel
and car machinery Of all kinds. The rail
road company expect to have a man her
within two weeks witha complete diamonI
drill outat to prospect for coal, which al
eminent g~eOlogist, sGnt here by the raliroa
company, reported to unoeflIe tins city L
inPxhaustible quantities. Horton Is eur
TO boast a big coal field in less than 81
months.
A frst-cIass roiier G0ur mill is on tn
iapis, and q large grain elevator wonld b
a having investment This section On,
truthfulis boast of better cFops of gil kind
this year than any other portion OF tn
State. There have been n number OF lin
rains recently, fall pasture is excellent an
stock and water plenty. The pay roll {
the railroad company at this place vii! b
over SIS, 900 each month when the shop
are operated to their full capacity.